Designing Scalable SaaS Pricing - The Rath 3×3 SaaS Pricing Framework
The Rath 3×3 SaaS Pricing Framework explains SaaS pricing across three customer tiers and three value drivers: users, compute resources, and product capability.
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3x3 SaaS Pricing Framework
A practical framework for designing SaaS pricing around buyer maturity, value depth, and operating constraints.
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- Frameworks for product, pricing, and platform design
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A Framework for a Secure Open-Source Software Supply Chain
It outlines automated SBOM generation and real-time dependency checks to improve security and transparency in open-source software.
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Keynote at the National IT Symposium on “Responsible AI: Intelligent Systems for Future”
On 29th November, 2025, ASBM School of Information Systems hosted the 4th National IT Symposium on “Responsible AI: Intelligent Systems for the Future”.
Spoke on 'Generative AI for Building Smarter Tech Foundations' at ONE AI Forum
Spoke remotely on "Generative AI for Building Smarter Tech Foundations" at the One AI Forum in Minsk, Belarus, on November 29, 2024.
Spoke on DevSecOps and Platform Engineering at Utkal University
Addressed a technical session on 'DevSecOps and Platform Engineering' during the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Computing and Communications - 2024, organized at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, on August 24, 2024.